[android-developers] Re: Sharing files between apps

2011-01-16 Thread John Gaby
If you want to find out about an application, use Context.createPackageContext() to create a Context configured for another application. This seems to be what I am looking for, however, when I call it with the package name of the other app, it returns null (I get nothing from logCat either).

Re: [android-developers] Re: Sharing files between apps

2011-01-16 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:21 PM, John Gaby jg...@gabysoft.com wrote: This seems to be what I am looking for, however, when I call it with the package name of the other app, it returns null (I get nothing from logCat either). I can use the PackageManager and retrieve the info for that same

[android-developers] Re: Sharing files between apps

2011-01-16 Thread John Gaby
Well no idea from just your paragraph description there. :) This API certainly works -- it is used a lot, for things like inflating the UI of app widgets. The following is the routine that I wrote to test the function. The call to manager.getPackageInfo works, but the call to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Sharing files between apps

2011-01-16 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:19 PM, John Gaby jg...@gabysoft.com wrote: The following is the routine that I wrote to test the function. The call to manager.getPackageInfo works, but the call to GetPackageContents returns null. What is GetPackageContext in your code? Is that just a typo and

[android-developers] Re: Sharing files between apps

2011-01-16 Thread John Gaby
What is GetPackageContext in your code? Is that just a typo and should be getPackageContext? Well, now don't I feel sheepish! It was indeed a typo, and the ever so helpful editor created a GetPackageContext for me and returned null. Sorry about wasting your time. As for your other